February, 2012

Blog - About

About database application building and me

This blog is about my experiences building multi-tier applications involving technologies like SQL Server, WCF, and various UI technologies. These days I work for Microsoft building such applications and migrating services and applications to the cloud. I have a fair bit of knowledge about the insides of database systems and know how to use that knowledge combined with many years of experience with building managed code applications to build high performance amazing experiences for end-users. I'm not a UI expert, but mostly tend to work in the middle and backends. However I find it useful to prove out that work from time to time by building simple UIs to provide some kind of administrative or diagnostic experience for folks operating the applications and services I build.

The first exciting news I have in the operations and manageability space is that there is now a management pack for monitoring SQL Azure based databases available as a public customer technology preview (CTP)! You can find the bits on the download center...

It occurs to me that this topic is probably more relevant to folks who read blogs at Technet. So, I'm packing up this blog and moving it to http://blogs.technet.com/b/sqlserveroperations/ . Thanks for reading my blog over the years, and if you like many...

For many years this blog has been about the great SQL Server samples which the SQL Server teams has brought to you. Today marks a change in the direction of this blog. For my readers interested in samples, thanks for hanging in there over the years and...